31
May
Philip Roth: A Writer and His People
Over the course of his remarkable career, Philip Roth received nearly every literary award imaginable. One of these prizes was an honorary doctorate from the...
25
May
Staff Picks: Madame Secretary, Modern Midrash and Melanie Phillips
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Moment
What we’re reading—and watching—this week.
25
May
Anti-Semitism Monitor 2018
The Anti-Semitism Monitor reports anti-Semitic incidents around the world by country and date on a weekly basis.
24
May
How Israeli Women Are Making Political Strides on National and Local Levels
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Sarah Breger
WePower has a pretty clear goal: equal representation in Israeli political life by the year 2030.
22
May
Poem | Of All the Peoples by Nathan Alterman
When under the gallows our children cried
We did not hear the world’s wrath.
For of all the peoples you selected us
For us you loved and sanctified.
For...
22
May
The Equality Myth
The story of Israel’s founding usually goes something like this: Sun-kissed male and female pioneers plowed the fields by day, danced the hora by night,...
17
May
After Eurovision, Netanyahu’s Translation Transgression
Bibi was just trying to be cool. When congratulating Israeli contestant Netta Barzilai for her Eurovision song, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent her a tweet. It worked in Hebrew. “Netta, Kapara alayich” he wrote.
15
May
Opinion Interview | Gabriela Shalev on The United Nations and Israel
What are the high and low points in Israel’s history with the United Nations?
I still remember the night my father woke me up at age...
15
May
Gaza’s Deadliest Day Since 2014
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Ellen Wexler
Israeli forces yesterday fired on protesters trying to breach the Gaza border fence, killing more than 60 and injuring 2,400.
15
May
Book Review | A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture by Shachar Pinsker
Since their origin in the early 1500s in Yemen and elsewhere in the Arab world, coffee houses have provided an important social meeting place for people from all walks of life, especially creative, political and business types.
14
May
Book Review | Harvey Milk by Lillian Faderman
Last April, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted to name the main terminal at San Francisco International Airport after Harvey Milk, the gay rights martyr who was assassinated 40 years ago. The decision further (and literally) cements Milk’s legacy as the best-known LGBT activist in American history.
14
May
Book Review | Gateway To The Moon by Mary Morris
Entrada de la Luna, New Mexico, is a small town with a big mystery. Why do its Spanish Catholic families light candles on Friday night? Why doesn’t anyone eat pork? The answers, it turns out, lie half a millennium ago, in 15th-century Spain.